# Introduction

**What is Grow AI?**

**Grow AI** is a unified liquidity protocol for the DeFi options market.

**Grow AI** aggregates various DeFi options AMMs into a single API & UI, allowing traders to execute trades with deep liquidity and minimal price impact.

Optimal trade execution is achieved using a network of solvers that compete to find the best routes for the order flow.

In the future, another layer can be introduced to further support trading by a dedicated secondary options pool (SOP), which allows makers (secondary options sellers) to sell their options in **Grow AI** (as an additional liquidity source for options buyers).

Below is a simplified overview of **Grow AI** protocol:

<figure><img src="https://docs.grix.finance/~gitbook/image?url=https%3A%2F%2F2712672112-files.gitbook.io%2F%7E%2Ffiles%2Fv0%2Fb%2Fgitbook-x-prod.appspot.com%2Fo%2Fspaces%252FDmqWcTh2Khe11JYd37PG%252Fuploads%252FyJjb4RFqPOktAPrCFR0O%252Fsimplified%2520protocol%2520overview%2520colored%2520docs%252027.11.24.drawio.png%3Falt%3Dmedia%26token%3Db3731614-dc9e-4415-942f-85ce5f41a677&#x26;width=768&#x26;dpr=4&#x26;quality=100&#x26;sign=6aed1fb1&#x26;sv=2" alt=""><figcaption><p>Grow AI Protocol Simplified Overview</p></figcaption></figure>